Ask HN: What do you use to write/draw your software/cloud architecture?

nwrk10y ago· 3 in thread

Visio, but been looking recently around what's new. Moving from 'drawing/clicking' to writing helped a lot.

Cloudcraft does look pretty awesome, seems like great interface and tooling.....are there any downsides or disappointments you've had since using it?

Mermaid looks great, thanks for the reference.

Woah, cloudcraft looks very interesting.

Thanks!

MalcolmDiggs10y ago· 3 in thread

I use Lucidchart because they have a lot of AWS-specific icons built in, so mapping out the guts of a VPC is really easy.

giaour10y ago

Aren't those the same icons AWS publishes for Visio/PPT/etc?

Oh wow, I never realized that. Yes, I do believe you're right!

+1 this, i feel like a sales rep when I talk to people about it.

I'm curious as to what HN is using since I usually do it my way.

I usually stick with what I know, such as powerpoint, but I have a difficult time making it look professional.

I love the README files in markdown in any git repository that are pretty descriptive on what their architectures are.

I use cacoo.com

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